Ravi Pujari threat childish, says Geelani party
The Hurriyat Conference faction led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani has shrugged off the threat issued by fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari to him off, saying the separatist leader cannot be brow-beaten by...
View ArticleSeparatists back JNUSU chief
On expected lines, Kashmiri separatists and various like-minded groups, including the bar council., have strongly condemned the arrest of JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and his comrades...
View ArticleCongress leader Anand Sharma ‘attacked’
Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Saturday night alleged that he was attacked physically by ABVP activists in the JNU campus when he was returning with party vice-president Rahul Gandhi after...
View ArticleRahul Gandhi: NDA suppressing students’ voice
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi addresses students at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the NDA government of...
View ArticleNew Delhi objects to US sale of F16s to Pakistan
Taking serious note of the United States’ decision to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, India on Saturday summoned US ambassador Richard Verma to convey its “displeasure and disappointment” over the...
View ArticleCJI orders transfer of ‘errant’ High Court judges
Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur has cracked the whip on errant and deviant judges by ordering a mass transfer of high court judges across the country. Earlier, such mass transfers were effected...
View ArticlePM Modi promises easy tax regime
Saying that his government is aggressively committed to making India a global manufacturing hub, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday assured the business community about further policy corrections...
View ArticleLeft gets Congress support over JNUSU arrest
A day after JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested in a sedition case, Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday reiterated that “stringent action will be taken against...
View ArticleNSG pulls over 600 from VVIP duties
In yet another exercise to free its commandos from VIP duties and focus on its mandate of undertaking counter-terror operations, the NSG has pulled out over 600 commandos from its VVIP security unit....
View ArticleDavid Headley’s wife, associate ‘refuse’ to answer NIA
The US-based wife of American-born Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorist David Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and his business partner have “refused” to answer questions posed...
View ArticleCentre plotting khichdi government in Arunachal: Nabam Tuki
Nabam Tuki, the ousted chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, on Sunday accused the Centre of conspiring to install a government comprising dissident Congress MLAs and BJP by revoking the President’s...
View ArticleSiachen tragedy: 9 soldiers’ bodies to be in Delhi today
The bodies of the other nine Army bravehearts, who died in the avalanche that struck their post in Siachen Glacier on February 3, are likely to be brought to New Delhi by Monday, if weather permits. In...
View ArticleArmy bids adieu to ‘buddies’
General Officer (Commanding), 15 Corps, Lt. Gen. Satish Dua, at the wreath-laying ceremony for the two soldiers who were killed during a gunfight with militants in Srinagar on Sunday. (Photo: Yusuf...
View ArticleTwo die in Jammu and Kashmir police firing
Kashmiri villages carry the body of Shaista Hamid during her funeral in Lilhar south of Srinagar. (Photo: AP)Two youth, including a woman, were killed and 10 other people were injured when security...
View Article25 more files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose out soon
A fresh set of 25 secret files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose are likely to be declassified next week. Minister of state for culture Mahesh Sharma said the declassified files may be made public February...
View ArticleBJP steps up efforts for a pact with Jayalaithaa
With the M. Karunanidhi-led DMK and Congress forging an alliance ahead of the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, the BJP has intensified efforts for either an alliance or a tacit understanding with the AIADMK...
View ArticleNation must listen to former PM attentively: Arun Jaitley
While talking at the CNN Asia Business Forum, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley said, “Former Presidents and Prime Ministers rarely speak, but when they do, the nation should listen to them with rapt...
View ArticleRajnath Singh claims Hafiz Saeed backed JNU protests
Protesters attack the CPI(M) headquarters in New Delhi on Sunday, vandalising its signboards. (Photo: PTI)Fresh storm erupts over alleged LeT link; vandals attack CPM HQ in Delhi New Delhi’s Jawaharlal...
View ArticlePress Club event case: Ex-Delhi University lecturer detained
Former Delhi University lecturer S.A.R. Geelani, who was booked for sedition in connection with an event at the Press Club of India here, was on Monday detained by the police.“Geelani has been detained...
View ArticleDistributors and OMCs unable to get income data
Having failed to garner the adequate response from “well-off” people to voluntarily surrender their subsidised LPG connections, the government asked all oil marketing companies (OMCs) to assess the...
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